public reading of diary as literary trope

[Eduard Waysband]

Н. Островский "На всякого мудреца довольно простоты"?

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Gabriella Safran <gsafran at stanford.edu>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> I'm writing about a 1910 story in which someone's diary is discovered and
> read aloud to an audience, including those whom the writer had been
> privately criticizing.  This scene feels familiar to me, as though I had
> read something like it elsewhere, but right now I can't think of any
> examples of it in Russian or European literature.  Can any of you think of
> an example of this?
> gratefully,
> Gabriella
>
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> Gabriella Safran
> Associate Professor
> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305
>
> tel. 650-723-4414
> fax 650-725-0011
> gsafran at stanford.edu
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